Towards A Collaborative Geoengineering Regime

This opinion piece is part of the the Global Governance Futures 2025 program which brings together young professionals to look ahead and recommend ways to address global challenges.

The formulation of geoengineering norms has begun. Geoengineering is the intentional intervention into a climate system, in the hopes of countering the effects of global warming. The heightened interest in the potential deployment of geoengineering technology is the result of an evolving dialogue among nations and non-government actors seeking to formulate geoengineering norms. This interaction has produced an important insight: geoengineering should be seen no longer as an alternative to climate-change mitigation, but rather as one of the feasible and more desirable methods for limiting global warming to below 2° Celsius. Consequently, we must seriously consider the costs and benefits of deploying geoengineering technology, and we must regulate the conduct of geoengineering experiments by creating a collaborative mechanism that consists of both private and public actors.

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